Maybe it'll be a new trend and you'll have to open another phoneline just to cope with the flood of apologies from patients. Doubtful though if the patients on your blog are anything like your standard patient list.

I think that's nice! Although I work in ED, where we tend to get far more rude and demanding patients than those who would actually take time out of their day to be pleasant. I'd appreciate the call! :P

I'm surprised that no one pointed out she did this at 10:00 on a Sunday night! Evidently she still needs a bit of work with her impulse control. - Goes through her calendar from three years ago and thinks nothing of picking up the telephone at 10 PM on a Sunday night to call a doctor for something that happened three years ago.

Agree with the 12-stepper dx. My husband's best friend apologized to me (about 15 years after the fact) for calling me a whore when I gave my to-be husband a very innocent kiss at the end of our first date. In that case though, I actually did appreciate it because, I won't lie, it hurt my feelings.

HOWEVER, on the very off-chance that she is not 12-stepping, did you recommend that she see a behavioral therapist for her severe OCD??? ;-)

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